Skills for Computing

4 September 2018

Examination Paper
Answer ALL questions.

Clearly cross out surplus answers.

Time: 2 hours

The maximum mark for this paper is 50.

Any reference material brought into the examination room must be

handed to the invigilator before the start of the examination.

Graph paper will be provided by the centre.

A formula sheet is provided at the end of the question paper.

Candidates are allowed to bring in a scientific calculator for this

module.
 Answer ALL questions

Question 1

The number of hours six people spend shopping and the number of items they buy are
recorded.

The results are recorded in the table below:

Number Hours Spent Number Items

Shopping Bought
2 8
1 2
3 12
3 8
2 5
1 1

a) Calculate the mean number of hours spent shopping. 2

b) Calculate the median number of items bought. 2

c) Calculate the simple linear regression line. 6

Total 10 Marks

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Question 2

A student records the number of times their friends check their mobile phone for
one hour.

Person Number of times

A 3
B 8
C 1
D 10
E 25
F 6

a) Is the data collected qualitative or quantitative? Explain your answer. 2

b) Draw a bar chart of the results. 6

c) Explain what the bar chart shows. 2

Total 10 Marks

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Question 3

A student is carrying out a survey asking people how many times they use a car, bus,
taxi or bicycle in the past week.

a) Would the data collected be primary or secondary data? Explain your answer. 2

b) The results for the number of times people use a car are below:

12 2 55 14 28 3 26 10 12 33 41 20 8

i) Are the results continuous or discrete? Explain your answer. 2

ii) Calculate the range of the data. 1

iii) Calculate the median of the data. 2

c) A new survey is taken and the results for the number of times they use a bicycle
is 10.2 times.

i) Is this possible? Explain your answer. 2

ii) State the name of this type of error.

1

Total 10 Marks

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Question 4

The Headteacher of a school needs to find a way to increase the number of students
taking part in sports in school. The management team has decided to apply the ‘Six
Hats’ method to the problem ‘in serial’.

a) Describe the serials method of applying the ‘Six Hats’ method. 1

b) Name and describe an alternative method of applying the ‘Six Hat’s method. 2

c) State the name of the hat that is cautious, critical and careful. Suggest how the 3
wearer of this hat will respond to the idea of increasing the number of students
taking part in sports and state whether this hat is predominantly right-brained or
left-brained.

d) Describe the role of the white hat. Describe how the white hat will contribute to 3
the discussion.

e) State the hat colour that the chair of the meeting would wear. 1

Total 10 Marks

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Question 5

a) Give THREE (3) reasons why referencing correctly is important. 3

b) The following book is referenced:

Title: Introduction to Computing

Author: S. Smith
Page number: 101
Year of publication: 2010
Publisher: Sun Press
Location of publisher: Edinburgh
2
i) Identify TWO (2) errors in the reference list below.

Smith, 2010. Introduction to Computing. Sun Press, Edinburgh.

c) Give the in-text reference for the book Introduction to Computing. 3

d) Give TWO (2) examples of activities that could contribute to the CPD of an IT 2
professional.

Total 10 Marks

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 Formula sheet

1. Percentage points of the normal distribution

1 1

-z z

1 15.87% 15% 5.00% 2.50% 2.28% 1.00% 0.50%

 68.27% 70.00% 90.00% 95.00% 95.45% 98.00% 99.00%
z 1.0000 1.0364 1.6449 1.9600 2.0000 2.3263 2.5758

2. Formulae

Spearman’s Rank Correlation (with no ties)

6 ∑ 𝑑2
𝑟𝑠 = 1 −
𝑛(𝑛2 − 1)

The Pearson Correlation Function

𝑛 ∑ 𝑥𝑖 𝑦𝑖 − ∑ 𝑥𝑖 ∑ 𝑦𝑖
𝑅=𝑟=
√(𝑛 ∑ 𝑥𝑖2 − (∑ 𝑥𝑖 )2 )(𝑛 ∑ 𝑦𝑖2 − (∑ 𝑦𝑖 )2 )

Simple Linear Regression

𝑦̂ = 𝑚𝑥𝑖 + 𝑐 is the least SSE straight line where:

∑(𝑥𝑖 − 𝑥̅ )(𝑦𝑖 − 𝑦̅) 𝑛 ∑ 𝑥𝑖 𝑦𝑖 − ∑ 𝑥𝑖 ∑ 𝑦𝑖

𝑚= 𝑚=
∑(𝑥𝑖 − 𝑥̅ )2 𝑛 ∑ 𝑥𝑖2 − (∑ 𝑥𝑖 )2

𝑐 = 𝑦̅ − 𝑚𝑥̅

The Coefficient of Determination

∑(𝑦̂ − 𝑦̅)2
𝑅2 = 𝑟 2 =
∑(𝑦 − 𝑦̅)2

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